Animal food.



- 1 UNITED STATES CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS. I

'P ENT oFFIo I ALBERT e. ,MANNS, or CHICAGO. ILLINOIS, Assienoa, BY DIRECT riND .MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To FOOD & FIBER PRODUCTS ANIMAL FOOD- To all ibhomi it may concern: I

- 'Be it known that I, ALBERT G. MANNS, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Chi cago, in the county. of Cook and State of Illi- This inventlon relates to an improved ani 'mal food, and refers more particularly to foods of that character in which extracts of vegetable and animal matters are mixed 1 with forage to produce a product which is at trated form, and of r Once palatable,- of comparatively igh food atively value.

The salient objects of the invention are to produce a food of which an extract derived as a by-product in the treatment of fieldcured or dry cornstalks may be utilized as one of the chief ingredients of the food: to;

provide a food whichis of high food value, especially in its fattening qualities; to provide a product which does not readily spoil or deteriorate under ordinary weather conditions and which may'therefor'e be cheaply packaged and handled; to provide a product which may be put up in either'dry or semifluid form, and in general to provide an im.--

proved product of the character referred to.

-I have discovered that by subjecting corn stalks or analogous plants toa comparatively drastic extracting treatment in bath of hot Water or steam for a Sufficienttime the water-soluble constituents, and particularly the sugars, roteids, and phosphates, are set free, and w 161! thereafter concentrated the extract thus derived. has peculiar characteristics, is of high nutritive value, and particularly suitable to form one of the chief ingredients of a compound animal food hereinafter described. Such extract is found upon analysis to contain a large percentage of fcrn'ientable saccharine matter, a very considerable percentage of roteids, and, a large percentage of mineral matters, including phosphates. ,-'For example, an analysis of such extract derived fromordinary fieldcured and dried maize orlndiamcorn stalks out after the plant Wassubstanti'all mature and extracted as above describeds iowsthe following constituents: fermentable saccharine matter, 48.21 per cent; ash or mine 1 matter, 15.15 per cent. insoluble ,n attcr,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 14., 1905. smart. 255,543."

Patented nec. 25, 19ee has been done. i I have found that blood may be combined with the extract from cornstalks or analogous plants and with a suitpalatable and of relatively high food value.

ploy about twentyve per cent.,by weight, of the extract (concentrated to about thirtytwo per cent. moisture) and seventy-five per cent. of animal blood and mix with this mixture suflicient fora e.to absorb the same and bring it to a friab e and approximately dry any of the usual forage foods, such as bran, chaff, orother dry forage of this general character. The mass maybe mixed with the forage in any convenient or desired manner and formed intocakes by pressure, or the mass may be rendered substa'ntially'dr so that it loses its cohesive character. l te keeping qualities are improved by drying it to a condition where it contains no more moisture than would be absorbed from atmospheric air unwell under ordinary conditions when not dried to this extent.

From theioregoing description it will be obvious that the proportions and ingredients may be somewhat modified without departing. from the invention, andaccordin ly I do peg limit myself to the precise detai s'speci- I claim as m invention-r sisting of a concentrate water extract of cornstalks, soluble in water and containing a relatively high per cent. of protein, 'phos phates and iuicrystallizable sugar, and a low ,age', thoroughly intermingled and substantially dry, substantially as described.

ALBERT G. MANNS.

Witnesses: i

" H. E. OTTE J. H; ERICSON.

other substances that animals, especiallyneat cattle, will readily eat it, although thlS able dry fora e to form a compound at once In making this com ound I preferably em der normal conditions, although it keeps The hereinescribed fgod compound con-- COMPANY, or p condition. The absorbent material may be per cent. of crystallizable polyoses, animal blood, and an absorbent and nutritious for- 

